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Bergen in Noordholland is a municipality with (1981) 14.238 inhabitants on 3355 hectares, with the villages Bergen (administrative center), Bergen aan Zee, Het Woud, and Zanegeest). It is involved in municipal reorganization, which so far produced no official flag.
Bergen is a small village near the North Sea. It was first mentioned
in 960; in 1190 Bergen received a Coat of Arms from Count Floris III of Holland
as a reward for the support against the Westfrisians. It was gules bend
argent between six an orle merlettes. Merlets are heraldic birds without
legs and beaks.
Last year I saw several BoA's, probably banners or flags to attract tourists.
On 19 Sep 1799 a combined Russian/English force was routed by troups of
the Batavian Republic and France, memorized by the Russian monument. Bergen
became an artists' center in 1915.
Jarig Bakker, 9 Jul 2001
image by Ivan Sache, 14 December 2014
A "renovated" and "improved" flag of the former municipality of Bergen
has been ordered by the Bergen Historical Association (Historisch
Vereniging Bergen°, HVB). The flag is red with a white bend cantonned
by six white merlettes. This is a banner of the arms of Bergen,
described some years ago by Frits David Zeller in Kroenik van de
HVB. The arms most probably belonged to the lords of Haarlem, who
were also lords of Bergen. The oldest representation of these arms
dates back to the late 16th century.
http://www.dichtbij.nl/groot-alkmaar/regionaal-nieuws/artikel/3809952/vernieuwde-vlag-van-bergen-verkrijgbaar.aspx - Dichtbij, 3 December 2014
This flag is shown on the Shipmate flag chart as adopted in 2008.
The "improved" version has the merlettes represented in a more compact
way.
The source is actually the "Bergense Kroniek", which is the magazine of the
Bergen Historical Association. Groet is a village in the municipality of Bergen (Noord-Holland province).
Until 1833 it was a separate municipality; it was then merged into Schoorl,
and in 2001 into Bergen.
Arms: or a lion rampant gules, with in base a label of three pendants
azure.
Ivan Sache, 14 December 2014
image by Ivan Sache, 14 December 2014
Ivan Sache, 14 December 2014
Bergense Kroniek, Historische Vereniging
Bergen NH, 17e jaargang - nr 2 - november 2010
Frits David Zeiler
Zes
merletten en een schuinbalk
(Six merlettes and a bend)
Traditie, waarheid
en verdichtsel met betrekking tot het dorpswapen van Bergen
(Tradition,
truth, and tale regarding the village arms of Bergen.)
page 2-8
http://tijdschriften.archiefalkmaar.nl/issue/BKR/2010-11-01/edition/null/page/4
The only relevant part is the blazon, from the Decree of 1922 that
formalized the Bergen arms:
"In keel een schuinbalk van zilver, vergezeld van
zes zoomsgewijs geplaatste merletten van hetzelfde."
(Gules, a bend argent,
accompanied of six merlettes in orle of the same.)
"Merlette" is, one
would say, the French word for the charge that in English would be called "Martlet".
However, the charges have come to differ in their depiction, with the martlet
more like the original French merlette, a female Blackbird, just with legs
missing, whereas the heraldic merlette is now a small duck, though often
depicted more swan-like, and is missing both beak and legs.
Viewing the
flag change from this background, the swan-like merlettes from the old version
have now been changed closer to a martlet: A more compact duck, but also missing
the beak. Basically, a kind of ugly duckling.
Peter Hans van den
Muijzenberg, 14 December 2014
Groet village
![[Groet village flag]](../images/n/nl-nh_gr.gif)
by Stefan Lambrechts, 9 Jun 2005, of Shipmate
Flagchart.
Flag: white with in the center the village (former municipal) arms,
and in the bottom in red "GROET".
Groet is a little village at the feet of the dunes. The name means:
"grassland", but as "Groet" is Dutch for "greetings" or "salute" the villagers
are supposed to be friendly to guests. It has attracted several artists,
not quite unfamous in the Netherlands, who were known, together with those
that lived in Bergen, as the "Bergensche School".
Granted 22 Oct 1817
Stefan Lambrechts, 9 Jun 2005
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